Given name: Marceli Family name: Godlewski (5)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) YES
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Male
  • (1) Marceli , (3) Marceli , (4) Marceli
  • (1) Godlewski , (2) Godlewski , (3) Godlewski , (4) Godlewski , (5) Godlewski
  • (3) 1865
  • (3) 1945
  • (1) From Warsaw, (2, 3, 4, 5) No information
    • (1) Polish
  • (1)

    parish priest of the Wszystkich Swietych kosciol (All Saints' church)
    at Grzybowski square.

    (2)

    Prelate of the parafia Wszystkich Swietych (All Saints' parish) in Grzybowski Square. Once a virulent anti-Semite, he changed his attitude in the ghetto. He was head of the Caritas in the district and ordered to distribute soup, regardless whether the hungry man was Jew or Christian.

    (3)

    a priest, rector of the parafia Wszystkich Swietych (All Saints' parish). Well-known Catholic worker for voluntary causes. During the interwar period he advocated anti-Semitic views, during the occupation he voluntarily stayed in the ghetto to help the Jews.

    (4)

    Priest of parafia Wszystkich Swietych (All Saints' parish), he lived in Anin and twice a week he commuted to the church, when the train was broken he went by foot although he was 70. At the beginning of the First Action he arranged it that inhabitants of the parish were taken to the Toebbens' shop.

    (5)

    priest from the church in Grzybowski Square

    • (1) in the Ghetto
    • (1) help
    • (1) Poles
    • (1) children, other help, housing assistence
    • (2, 4, 5) religion
    • (3) religion, Poles
  • (2)

    beautiful, grey head resembled Piotr Skarga, we all loved him, he often came to comfort and reassure us

  • (1)

    Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum

    (4)

    Hermelin, Rudolf relacja 301-4151 (testimony 301-4151)

  • (1) 307,328, (2) 306,307, (3) 356,436, (5) 180